In light of my comments about MB Trading yesterday, a reader was quick to point out that MB Trading does not offer VIX futures.
For those who may be interested, the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) maintains a current list of VIX futures brokers which I have reproduced below:
Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs)
- Advantage Futures
- Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
- Credit Suisse First Boston LLC
- Goldman Sachs Global Clearing & Execution
- Interactive Brokers
- J.P. Morgan Futures Inc.
- Lind-Waldock
- Man Financial Inc.
- MEB Options
- Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith
- Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
- Newedge USA LLC
- Prudential Bache Commodities, LLC
- UBS Securities LLC
- Vision Financial Markets
- Xchange Financial
Introducing Brokers (IBs)
- American Futures & Options, Inc.
- Hybrid Trading and Resources, LLC
- Infinity Futures
- Lakeshore Securities, L.P.
- TD Professional Execution Inc.
- Three Lakes Trading Company
- Zaner Group, LLC
Clearing Firms
- Advantage Futures
- Bank of America
- Barclays Capital Inc.
- BNP Paribas
- Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
- Credit Suisse
- Deutsche Bank
- Electronic Brokerage Systems LLC
- Fimat
- Fortis Clearing LLC
- Goldman Sachs Global Clearing & Execution
- Interactive Brokers
- J.P. Morgan Futures Ltd.
- Man Financial
- Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith
- Morgan Stanley & Co. Ltd.
- Newedge USA LLC
- Nomura Securities
- O'Connor & Co. LLC
- Pax Clearing
- Prudential Bache Commodities, LLC
- RBC Capital Markets
- Timber Hill
- Tradelink
- UBS Securities Ltd.
- Vision Financial Markets
For those who have been drawn into the world of VIX futures as a result of the growth of VIX-based ETNs, perhaps 2011 will be the year to trade VIX futures directly, rather than through various exchange-traded products.
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- Capitulation in Back Month VIX Futures
- VIX Futures Contango Soars
- More Strange Happenings in the VIX Term Structure
- Today’s Jump in the VIX Futures Term Structure
- VIX Futures: The One Picture You Need to Remember
[source: CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE)]
Disclosure(s): the CBOE is an advertiser on VIX and More